How to make AI spot distance higher and make them scan an area?

[MhmD-TH [KTHD]]

Hello, another question and day, nuffin else

im making a mission and BLUFOR AI units are perched on the top of a hill that can oversee the town of Dorida

i want it to make it so that the AI would scan the town and the surrounding area for any OPFOR units

i did test and they would engage on sight, which is good, but the AI never spots targets on their own

So, is there a way to make them manually scan the terrain? or a way to make them know about any units in the area that have been detected by other BLUFOR units?

Thanks

[Lettuce (formerly G4rrus)]

First you should probably try to set the spotTime and spotDistance of the AI up

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setSkill

then you might not even need the scanning anymore. and if so and you don't have CBA enabled (aka vanilla arma only) you could try for some vanilla functions like maybe this one:

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_findOverwatch

[MhmD-TH [KTHD]]

I do have the spottime and spotdistance up with 3den Enhanced, i was wondering if i could in some way turn it up higher

ill test the findoverwatch though

[Lettuce (formerly G4rrus)]

No, in reality a AIs skills is even bound by its config so even if you set the spotDistance etc. to 1 it probably is a value below that depending on the unit used. HOWEVER you can use camouflage coefficient on the units you want to be spotted...basically having a really low camouflage coefficient is gonna make your unit really stealthy while having a really high one is gonna make you stick out like a sore thumb to AI

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setUnitTrait

[Lettuce (formerly G4rrus)]

just be careful when you apply the camo stuff cuz it could prolly be overwritten by loadouts scripts etc...so define a desired one somewhere like I dunno _camo = 50; and then do a check that changes it back to 50 whenever it doesn't equal 50......something like that I guess.

[Fletcher]

Can use https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721359761&searchtext=VCom . There is a setting where you can set the range i believe.